crying

Definitions

1. Cry.
2. The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
   countable, uncountable
3. Compelling immediate attention:burning, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, instant, pressing, urgent.
4. Demanding or requiring action or attention: a crying need.
5. Abominable; reprehensible: a crying shame.
6. (prenominal) notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)
   prenominal
7. demanding attention or remedy: a crying evil.
8. abominable; flagrant: a crying shame.
9. A. ADJ [child] → que llora; (= whining) → llorón [need] → urgenteit's a crying shame (= pity) → es una verdadera lástima; (= outrage) → es una auténtica vergüenza
   ADJ
10. B. N (= weeping) → llanto m; (= sobbing) → lloriqueo m
    N
11. adj (fig: = outrageous) injustice → schreiend; need → dringend; it is a crying shame → es ist jammerschade or ein Jammer
    adj
12. n (= weeping) → Weinen nt; (of baby) → Schreien nt
    n

Equivalents

Examples

“Their constant cryings kept us awake⟳!”

“[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have⟳ been damaged […]”

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